Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists...

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Nicolas Langlitz

Chimpanzee Culture Wars

Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists

Nicolas Langlitz

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Princeton University Press
16 November 2020

Social & cultural anthropology; Primates

The first ethnographic exploration of the contentious debate over whether nonhuman primates are capable of culture

In the 1950s, Japanese zoologists took note when a number of macaques invented and passed on new food-washing behaviors within their troop. The discovery opened the door to a startling question: Could animals other than humans share

By: Nicolas Langlitz
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691204277
ISBN 10: 0691204276
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 16 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicolas Langlitz is associate professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research. His books include Neuropsychedelia: The Revival of Hallucinogen Research since the Decade of the Brain. Twitter @NicolasLanglitz

Reviews for Chimpanzee Culture Wars: Rethinking Human Nature alongside Japanese, European, and American Cultural Primatologists

"""Langlitz has woven together an unprecedented and maximally diverse set of strands in seeking to explain what is cultural primatology. . . . The result of this intellectual weaving is a Bayeux Tapestry of cultural primatology.""---William C. McGrew, Primates"